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Crook Burn
runs into:-    Tees, River

civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   county boundary
1Km square:-   NY7835 (etc etc) 
10Km square:-   NY73
county:-   Durham
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary


photograph
BQR73.jpg  At Crookburn Bridge,
(taken 1.6.2009)  
photograph
BQR74.jpg  At Crookburn Bridge,
(taken 1.6.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 52 7) 
placename:-  Crook Burn
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY73SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river; county boundary 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Crook Burn
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY73SE.jpg
"Crook Burn"
single or double wiggly line; a river and county boundary 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY78123580 Crookburn Bridge (Alston Moor)
NY77193364 Crookburn Foot (Alston Moor / Dufton)
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